Special Recognition | Medal Winners| Summaries & Reviews

• Fiction Book of the Year - The Last Spymaster by  Gayle Lynds
• Non-Fiction Book of the Year – Playing With The Enemy by Gary Moore
• The President’s Award: Is Anybody Listening? by Barbara Birchim
• Admiral Nimitz Award for Outstanding Naval Fiction:  Seas of Crisis by Joe Buff
• The Freedom Award: Military Salute (Website and DVD) by Jeff Seeber
• Reader’s Choice Award: My Son is a Marine by Jo Anne Allen
• Presidential Medal for Outstanding Short-Documentary Film: Highest Traditions by Tony Lazzarini
• Best History Book Series: War in the Pacific - Volume I, II, III by Jerome Hagen

Gold Medal Awards

• Children’s Books: The Legend of the Lost Tiki by Jan E. Culbertson
• Fiction: Paradigm by Robert D. Taylor
• History: A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution by Theodore Savas and J. David Dameron
• Historical Fiction: In the Shadow of Suribachi by Joyce Faulkner
• Biography: Boys of '67 by Charles Jones
• Memoirs: Battlelines by LtCol David Brown USMC Ret and Tiffany Brown Holmes
• Poetry: From Nam with Love by Lloyd A. King
• Resource & Reference: Basic Training Guidebook by Michael C. Volkin
• Anthology: The Blog of War by Matthew Currier Burden
• Spiritual & Religious: Under Orders by William McCoy
• Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Space Egg by Brian Wizard

Silver Medal Awards

• Children’s Books: The Wallace Dream by Marc CB Maxwell
• Fiction: Echoes From The Infantry by Frank Nappi
• History: Marines in the Garden of Eden by Richard S. Lowry
• Historical Fiction: My Father’s Keeper by Kip Vander Hyde
• Biography: Touching the Ancient One by Rupert Pratt
• Memoirs: The Lady and the Tiger by Patricia Linder
• Poetry: Tracings by Carolyn Howard-Johnson
• Resource & Reference: Help! I'm A Military Spouse by  Kathie Hightower and Holly Scherer 
• Anthology: Iraq: Providing Hope by Eric Holmes

Distinguished Book Award Winners (*Changed to the Bronze Medal)

• Quadalajara by Jack Tumidajski
• The Coil by Gayle Lynds
• Moving is Murder by  Sara Rosett
• The Ninth Commandment by Joe Tuffy Tofuri
• Blue Angels – A Fly By History by Nicholas A. Veronico
• Hell Wouldn’t Stop – An Oral History Of The Battle Of Wake Island by Chet Cunningham
• The Gulf War Chronicles by Richard S. Lowry
• The Veteran's Survival Guide by John D. Roche
• Street Fight in Iraq by Patrick Tracy
• The First Hellcat Ace by Hamilton McWhorter
• The L.P. by David Walks-As-Bear
• Every Shape, Every Shadow by Roger L. Conlee
• The Sobs of Autumn's Violins by A. R. Homer
• Red Sky At Night by Bill Bigelow
• Rogue Trident by John Hindinger